I wanted to start a post that serves as a running tally of all of the stuff I’ve been reading for the Tor.com column that can be referred back to if you’re interested in that sort of thing. It’ll be updated as I go. This bibliography is comprehensive for the entire series upon its completion on 5/27/20.

History of science references:

The Gene: An Intimate History (2016) by Siddharta Mukherjee

A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson

The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of its Greatest Inventors (2002) by John Gribbin

The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809-82 (1887)by Charles Darwin

Voyage of the Beagle (1939) by Charles Darwin

An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) by Thomas Malthus

Daedalus; Or Science and the Future (1924) by J.B.S. Haldane

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (1942) by Julian Huxley

The Double Helix (1968) by James D. Watson

What is Life? (1944) by Erwin Schrödinger

The Eighth Day of Creation: Makers of the Revolution in Biology (1996) by Horace Freeland Judson

The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology (2015) by Michael C. Gerald

“The Concept of Allosteric Interaction and Its Consequences for the Brain” by Jean-Pierre Changeaux in The Journal of Biological Chemistry (2013)

“The lac repressor” by Mitchell Lewis in CR Biologies (2005)

“Allostery and the Monod-Wyman-Changeaux model after 50 years” by Jean-Pierre Changeaux in Annual Reviews of Biophysics (2012)

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (2009) by Sally Smith Hughes

What Mad Pursuit (1990) by Francis Crick

Sydney Brenner: A Biography (2010) by Errol Friedberg

Lynn Margulis: The Life and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel (2012) by Dorion Sagan

Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution (2008) by Lynn Margulis

Acquiring Genomes: A Theory Of the Origin of Species (2003) by Lynn Margulis

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010) by Rebecca Skoot

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (1998) by Kerry Mullis

A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (2017) by Jennifer A. Doudna

The Epigenetics Revolution (2012) by Nessa Carey

History of science fiction references:

Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction (2011) by David Seed

The History of Science Fiction (2006) by Adam Charles Roberts

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011) by John Clute, Peter Nicholls, John Grant

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003) by Edward James

Olaf Stapledon: Speaking for the Future (1994) by Robert Crossley

The Astounding Illustrated History of Science Fiction (2017) by Dave Golder and Jess Nevins